Abstracts Rainer Enskat Die Form der Dialektik in Hegels Phanomenologie des GeistesIn his Phenomenology of Spirit Hegel has in comparison with the enormouscomplexity of the whole work in a somewhat hidden way hinted at the formal nucleus of what he conceives of as dialectic especially as the dialectical movement This movement has the form of a sceptical examination testing the claims of the consciousness to be in the possession of knowledge Such a claim is bound as Hegel shows to many different cognitive levels of the consciousness beginnig with sensual certainty and ending with absolute knowledge The way of the examination corresponds exactly to the levels of the consciousness But on its way to the absolute knowledge the examination encounters appropriate to its sceptical intention as many non veracious forms of knowledge as are different from absolute knowledge Each sceptical testwhich encounters a non veracious form of knowledge presents necessarily the nothingness of what it is the result a result which contains what the foregoing non veracious forms of knowledge save anyhowas true In the following article it is to show that this nucleus of the form of the dialectical movement stands the test ifapplied to the step resp jump from sensual certainty to perception If the following interpretations and analyses are founded well enough it is justified to be confident that interpretations and analyses of further experiences of consciousness on the same line can be fruitful Bernardo Ferro How Platonic is Hegel s Dialectic A new approach to an old debateWhile in recent years the link between Hegel and Aristotle has been widely explored Hegel s Platonic heritage seems to have faded into the background This asymmetry ispartly due to the standard characterization of Plato as a dogmatic metaphysician committed to a two world ontology In this paper I show that Hegel s engagement with Plato stands out precisely for his rejection of this kind of reading and moreover that this attitude sheds an important light on his own thought To determine how I focus on Plato s and Hegel s conceptions of dialectics I argue that both models despite their obvious differences share key structural similarities which can only be truly appreciated by moving beyond mainstream Platonism This change of perspective allows for a clearer understanding of Hegel s philosophical development and for new insights into his philosophy as a whole Anton Friedrich Koch Hegel s Parmenidean Descent to the Science Without ContraryThis essay is intended to make Hegel s Science of Logic intelligible from its basic antidogmatic methodological rule and resolve to want to think purely i e without presuppositions The beginning of the Logic with Being Nothing Becoming Being there is deduced from this resolve in detail as is the central logical operation of negation especially in application to itself i e non well founded or circular negation Various forms of negation in the logic of being and the three basic types of circular negation that are operative in the logic of being essence and concept respectively are distinguished and all findings are related to Hegel s text The discussion takes place within the framework of classical metaphysics and logic Plato Aristotle Leibniz andcontemporary analytic metaphysics In particular Michael Della Rocca s radically monistic Parmenidean Ascent 2020 to Being is discussed as a profiling foil against which Hegel s Parmenidean descent from Being to negation becoming and to all sorts of distinctions stands out A second foil for comparison is the science without contrary that Sebastian Rodl presented in Self Consciousness and Objectivity 2018 It turns out that Hegel is much more considerate of the radical sceptic than Rodl All in all the Science of Logic is portrayed here as Hegel s theory of the pre temporal purely logical evolution of logical space the Hegelian Absolute As such it is designed by Hegel as the final nonstandard metaphysics which if successful would critically assess all possible standard metaphysical theories each of which fixes and immobilises a fluid stage in the logical evolution and treats it as the static whole of logical space If successful mind you but there are reasons to believe that Hegel does not achieve what he is aiming at Christian Krijnen Heterologie oder Dialektik Rickerts Lehre vom Ursprung des Denkens im Spiegel der hegelschen LogikWith his heterology the southwest German neo Kantian Heinrich Rickert developeda doctrine that proved to be groundbreaking not only for neo Kantianism but also forthe theory of subjectivity in postwar transcendental philosophy in the broad sense Rickert s heterology is primarily concerned with the original structure of thought In the discussion the alternative Negation Hegel or Otherness Rickert has become widespread Since the discussion of Hegel plays an important role for Rickert heterology concerns at the same time the relation of Hegel s speculative idealism and advanced Kantian transcendental philosophy Accordingly it has also had an impact on Hegel scholarship However until today and on the whole the debate is far from unanimous with regard to the validity of Rickert s critique of Hegel In view of the almost deadlocked discussion this study proposes a new interpretative perspective It focuses on the issue of formalism as a methodological problem First I outline the problem of formalism then I examine Rickert s heterology for its formalism subsequently I putthe thesis forward that Rickert s heterology is in Hegel s words a kind of external reflection This leads to the consequence that heterology lacks a logic of being Rickert hastily moves from the beginning of philosophy to the origin of thinking Thus unlike Hegel Rickert provides only an insufficient account of the very concepts with which he determines the origin of thought an Achilles heel of transcendental philosophy Ryosuke Ohashi Die Logik des Absoluten und die Logik des Leeren oder die Durchsichtigkeit bei Hegel und das soku bei NishitaniIn this article an attempt is made to compare with reference to the theme indicated in the title Hegel s logic as the core of his entire philosophical speculation and Buddhist logic which lays deep roots in the intellectual soil of the Kyoto School s philosophy as represented by Keiji Nishitani The term transparency in the sense that it is used in Hegel s logic and the soku of Buddhist logic stand as the focal point of this comparative treatment In Hegel s Science of Logic the term transparency first shows up at the end of the logic of essence and then prominently in the logic of the Concept The determinateness of the Concept categories and indeed of all logical categories is a thoroughly transparent shine a difference that vanishes in its positedness This transparency itself is employed in the Hegelian logic without logical definition just like with the terms negation transition and mediation as Kierkegaard once pointed out This element of transparency has nowhere been considered in past research on Hegel Yet this element can be drawn out as the focal point in a comparative treatment of the Hegelian and Buddhist logics For in Buddhist logic the word soku is used at such places where different states of affairs are on level and insofar as they are made transparent with one another For example there stands the most well known saying of Mahayana Buddhism which declares Emptiness is soku appearance appearance is soku emptiness At the point where these two terms intersect Hegel s transparency and Nishitani s soku we see that the two overlap and yet at the same time they are separated by a gap in which what is peculiar to each becomes visible Ernst Otto Onnasch Funf Briefe eine Abschrift eines Goethe Gedichts und ein Nurnberger Zeugnis von G W F HegelThis paper presents four new letters by Hegel to 1 the wine merchant Ramann 12 October 1802 to 2 his student and repetent in Berlin Friedrich Wilhelm Corove 12December 1818 to 3 his friend Heinrich Beer 2 November 1828 and 4 the publisher Friedrich Frommann 11 September 1818 A fifth letter to Friedrich Niethammer 11 September 1826 comes in a new and full transcription A lost Hegel transcript of three poems by Goethe resurfaced in a Dutch archive and is edited Lastly a 1814 school certificate that Hegel wrote in Nurnberg for his pupil Johann Christoph Sigmund Lechner has been found and edited Short introductions accompany each of the documents